Question

Javon won Indianapolis 500 race in 2011 with an average speed of 170.265 miles per hour. What was his average speed to the nearest tenth of a mile per hour? How do you get the answer?

Answer 1

170.3 miles per hour

Explanation:

Javon won Indianapolis 500 race in 2011 with an average speed of 170.265 miles per hour. What was his average speed to the nearest tenth of a mile per hour?

From the above question, we are asked to approximate to the nearest tenth of a mile.

The number that falls under the tenth of a mile, is the number that is immediately after the decimal.

Hence, for:

170.265 miles per hour:

2 is the number in the tenth place, the number after 2 is 6, it is a number that is higher than 5. So we add 1 to 2

Therefore,

170.265 miles per hour to the nearest tenth of a mile = 170.3 miles per hour.

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